SperlingViews - Delta_Junction, Alaska

I lived in Delta for enough years to where I can state with certainty that most of the townsfolk are off their rockers. I've never heard of or seen so many uncivilized acts in my life! There is absolutely nothing to do there except drink, & I'm not a bar person. If you want to be talked about, gossiped about, and have no privacy, move to Delta Junction. Also, lots of drugs and alcoholism. Delta Junction is known as Dysfunction Junction in the Interior of Alaska. Hmmm, I wonder why? Plus the cold along with the harsh wind and darkness. People just go crazy I guess.[read more...]

I never even knew this website existed until just now while scouting about jobs and apartments in Raleigh, North Carolina. I've spent 12 years in Alaska--3 in Anchorage, 5 in Fairbanks and finishing up 4 in Delta Junction and am leaving for Raleigh in 2 months and I'm counting the days. I was looking at everyone's opinions on Raleigh and was shocked to hear criticism but then I haven't lived there in 29 years. However, I'm counting the days unitl I can get out of here. I'm newly-divorced and there's nothing up here for me. My grown children live in Fairbanks but I'm tired of the isolation, cold and high cost of living. I have to drive 90 miles just to get to Fairbanks and shopping there is limited. I want to hang around single people my own age and there's no one around. I love cultural things to do--even something as simple as a movie. There's nothing here. The long, cold dark winters drive me crazy. I don't care how it it gets in Raleigh--anything is better than 40- in the Alaskan Interior! It's a beautiful state but unless you like hunting, fishing, long winters and isolation--don't even bother to come up here to live.[read more...]